Sarah Muirhead
A graduate of Edinburgh college in 2009, Sarah Muirhead's paints and draws fleshy works resulting from her own personal obsession with people. They are not portraits, but records of the individuals portrayal of their own image. They are the result of meeting with strangers, those who are isolated, different or counter-cultural, who Muirhead chooses as subjects. The act of walking up and talking to them encourages a need to be significant which the artists then describes on her layered painting and heavily worked drawings. They form the subject but the compositions are snap-shots, less posed and forced than a portrait, but still revealing of her obsession for people and their position within their surroundings and clothing.
Cornelius
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Painting
110cm x 160cm
Acrylic on wooden board, Image is detail from piece
Painted of a friend of the artist who organises an art and music night in Edinburgh, where she is only artist attending so far. Here, as in other pieces, Muirhead eschews the role of portrait artist and lets the subject portray himself, creating the gestures and decorations that describe his idea of himself while conscious of being observed. Painting of skin and Muirhead's pixelated aesthetic style can also be seen.
£1,980
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